Avalokiteshvara

Katha

Avalokiteshvara vowed never to rest until every being was free from suffering, and his thousand arms and eleven heads emerged from that very vow.

How Green Tara was born from a lotus growing in a lake of tears wept by Avalokiteshvara, who despaired that suffering beings remained endless.

The six-syllable mantra of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, among the most widely recited chants in Tibetan Buddhism.

The Nilakantha Dharani, Avalokiteshvara's Great Compassion Dharani: a Mahayana chant for protection, purification and compassion.